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January 17, 2018

Introducing: Not Beneath

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You need to check out this amazing band called Not Beneath from Ohio featuring ex-members of Narcissus, Outcry, North Meadow Park, and Vessel. Complex, technical, heartfelt and spiritual heavy metal. This is a band you absolutely need to give a listen to. Check out their debut full length “memento mori” below (or right here on bandcamp). If you are into early Becoming The Archetype you’ll love this. Thanks Marco for the recommendation!… Continued →

The Prayer Chain Reach Crowd Funding Success, Set New Stretch Goals

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Well loved and critically acclaimed 90’s alternative rock band, The Prayer Chain, have come out of retirement to announce a pressing of “Shawl” on vinyl for it’s 25th anniversary and 1 Live show which will take place in California this summer. The band has set a couple of stretch goals which will include another live show (Nashville, TN. in August) and a professional live audio and video recording if they hit $30k. Let’s support these guys and cheer on their out of retirement success, there is surely enough of us “old” guys and gals to make this whole thing worthwhile.… Continued →

January 16, 2018

The Prettybads - Maybe I'm Not The One You Wanted (Punk Rock Demo)

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I am proud to present the first demo recording by new band The Prettybads titled “Maybe I’m Not The One You Wanted”. This is a rough demo of a song that will appear on the band’s debut due out this year on their new label home – Thumper Punk Records. This female fronted punk rock band would appeal to fans of The Distillers, Ramones, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Blaster the Rocketman, Huntingtons, and Halo Friendlies. Stream and Download the song below or right here.… Continued →

REVIEW : The Beckoning - The Desolation of War

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Canadian progressive death metallers The Beckoning have been making noise since 2010.  This release combines two earlier demos—Desolate (2014) and War (2012) into one remastered full-length.  Truly progressive, this 4-song clocks in at over 29 minutes, making it either a very long EP, or a full-length with only 4 songs, depending on one’s perspective. While the formula has been done before—screamed/growled vocals + clean/operatic vocals + heavy riffing + melodic leads—it works well here.  Founder/drummer/vocalist Roy Turple pulls off the screamed and clean sung vocals, and when he chooses the latter approach, resembles Jimmy Brown or Eric Clayton. … Continued →

January 15, 2018

REVIEW : coopertheband - Kingdoms

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The press release labelled this as “Indie Folk Rock.”  And while that is mildly accurate, it certainly doesn’t tell you all you need to know.  Full disclosure: I’m a bit of 90s slacker kind of guy.  So indie rock to me means loud guitars, dissonant riffs, punk attitude and band photos that make it look like the members are made up of blind golfers.  Back then, Nirvana had come in and changed all the rules.  Alternative rock had overtaken the airwaves and become mainstream.  Indie rock was an even deeper underground version of alternative. … Continued →

January 14, 2018

New Music: January 12, 2018

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Alternative & Rock Contemporary & Pop Folk & Singer/Songwriter Hard Rock & Metal … Continued →

January 13, 2018

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Medic Announces Their End...Or Have They?

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Indie pop group Medic have announced they will be calling it quits. However, this all follows the group’s move to Nashville and the release of several singles (with hints at even more music). Other bands have made similar announcements before rebranding under a new name and optimists think there’s a chance that may be the case here. However, it’s still too early to tell. In the meantime, the band has cleared out their Facebook page apart from this announcement, which you can view below. … Continued →

IVM "Family & Friends Sampler 1" Now Available on CD

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The new IVM “Family & Friends Sampler 1” is now available on CD and in my hands. This CD will begin shipping on Tuesday next week. Anyone that orders the CD via Bandcamp gets the digital albums version with purchase. $3 for CD + Digital or $2 for digital only. Featuring 20 bands as seen in picture below. Tons of great music. Currently scouting bands for “2” due out in late spring/early summer. Order here. If you want merch only and don’t need the digital bandcamp files, I also have it in the official IVM store here.… Continued →

January 12, 2018

The Beautiful Mistake and Dogwood Announce Reunion Shows in Orange County and San Diego

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The Beautiful Mistake have announced two reunion shows in Southern California taking place March 23rd at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA. with Dogwood, Odd Robot, and Havoc Fiction, and also March 24th at Brick By Brick with Dogwood, the mighty – No Innocent Victim, and Bossfight. Dates and info can be found on The Beautiful Mistake Facebook page here. For tickets to Chain Reaction click here. Tickets to Brick by Brick in San Diego, click here.… Continued →

January 11, 2018

Mainframe Announce "Burn The Boats Ep"

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I am proud to announce the next IVM release which will be a follow up EP from Mainframe titled “Burn The Boats”. This 6 track ep will feature some of that same feel from the Debut last summer and continue on the trend started with the recent “Undivided Devotion” but taken to a whole new level. The ep will feature a special punk rock “cover” song along with a bunch of other great originals. Read a little blurb from NoahMainframe, below. Release date has yet to be determined.… Continued →

January 10, 2018

New Kekal song for free download!

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Experimental metal band Kekal have just released a new song for free download here Announcement of the track came via the band’s website: “Deeper Underground, Kekal’s upcoming 11th full-length album, follows pretty much the same release process as with the latest album “Multilateral” (2015), with majority of tracks to be released individually as they are ready, before the album release date in 2018. As of October 2017, five tracks are now available for digital download or streaming, fully-produced and mastered. You can purchase and download them individually from Bandcamp in either lossless audio (FLAC, ALAC) or high-bitrate mp3, or free download mp3 either from ReverbNation or by extracting the audio from YouTube, or just stream online from SoundCloud or ReverbNation.… Continued →

January 9, 2018

REVIEW : Praiser - 20 Again

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  “Blessed Be The Punk” We all want relive the days of our youth. Remember being young, vibrant, forceful in our thoughts and actions? Age doesn’t necessarily take those attributes away. Praiser makes that abundantly clear in their punk music. The band’s latest album, 20 Again, doesn’t bring age as its theme, but rather a collection of twenty great songs from their past. Since 2009 the Hamburg, Germany band Praiser has continuously churned out perfect punk tracks. I don’t use the term “perfect” lightly. Praiser knows what it means to be punk.… Continued →

Today's Thoughts on Marketing and Social Media by Brandon Jones

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Good morning everyone and Happy New Year! Just thought i’d post a little blurb about an alarming “trend” I have seen in recent months. A few artists/bands have hooked up with some marketing firms, more like infomercial style marketing if you are looking for a definition. Anyway, I have been blasted with these ads for whatever reason on Facebook due to my young teenage demographic that I so lovingly belong to. I’m almost 40 going on almost 20, am I right? I have nothing against promoting art/music/products on social media and the web in general, I’ve done it myself for IVM and friends/labels do it for their bands all the time.… Continued →

REVIEW : TIMŌRĀTUS - Reverentia

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While this band hails from Louisville, I would have sworn they were from eastern Europe somewhere.  That’s a good thing.  Reverentia is yet another quality post-metal release I’ve come across recently.  But whereas the mysterious band God revel in djent rhythms and instrumental anthems to connect the listener to God, TIMŌRĀTUS takes a different approach altogether.  Each album is written and recorded in a different style.  I’ve sampled some of the other albums and there’s black metal, thrash, doom and experimental hybrids. The music on Reverentia was takes on form of post-metal is impregnated with black metal atmospherics, layers of shoegaze wall-of-sound sonics and doom metal riffs, creating a drone metal beast! … Continued →

January 7, 2018

CHPTRS Release New Ep Titled "Chapter Two"

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CHPTRS which features Josh Auer of Pax217, Avner, and recently The OC Supertones (2010-2017), has a new group called CHPTRS that is an ambient, experimental, indie rock duo. They released Chapter One back in fall of 2017 and now Chapter Two has been made available. Check out these two great eps over on MusicBed right here. You can also stream via Spotify below… Continued →

Pyramid Park - Fall On Me (Audio)

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I’ve mentioned the artist known as Pyramid Park late last year and I just wanted to share one of his songs off the most recent full length “Vulnerability”. This worship centered UK based indie artist would fall somewhere between Bastille, Foster The People, We Shot the Moon, Two Door Cinema Club, and even a tad bit of Delirious. Pyramid Park’s refreshing take on faith based indie-alt-rock falls right up there with today’s hottest bands while establishing a road all their own. If you dig great music period then please give Pyramid Park a listen today.… Continued →

January 6, 2018

The Beautiful Mistake Announce Reunion Show With Dogwood and others at Chain Reaction

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The much loved indie/emo band, The Beautiful Mistake, is coming out of retirement to play some reunion shows. First show announced will be at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA. on March 23rd with Dogwood, Odd Robot, and Havoc Fiction. This is going to be a great show but it’s a small venue so it’s best to buy your tickets now and reserve your spot to see some great bands in action. An event page has been made here on facebook.… Continued →

New Music: January 5, 2018

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Alternative & Rock Contemporary & Pop Hip Hop & Rap Praise & Worship … Continued →

January 2, 2018

January 1, 2018

Squad 5-0 Begin Working on New Comeback Album, Say What?

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With all these new reunions fresh in our minds and the rivers of nostalgia running deep, it was only time before the mighty Squad 5-0 came back and dropped a new album on us. According to the band’s official Instagram page (sorry I’m not aware of any Facebook pages that are current), they may be working on a new album and teased with like 1 second guitar clip. Whether or not this is true remains a mystery much like the band themselves. Let’s hope for one more rockin’ ruckus of a new album.… Continued →

The Prayer Chain Announce Vinyl Release of "Shawl" and Live Show

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Beloved Southern California 90’s alt-rock band, The Prayer Chain, have just announced a new campaign to fund the vinyl pressing of their much loved debut full length “Shawl”. The band crossed all barriers and industry confines to write songs that conveyed emotions which the general “Christian” market just wasn’t prepared to deal with at the time. Their music transcends all labels and tags that may be associated with the band to truly be recognized as the powerhouse rock act that they were. This and “Mercury” were the band at their finest.… Continued →

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